HA! I got it. spent part of the night reading last night.
Problem #1: The disk needs to be RAW. No formatting. Found that on one of the early XDA threads.
Problem #2: The biggest issue, if you have an account set as admin in XP, this does not mean that the programs running are running as admin. MAJOR hurdle.
I got the nook to boot. IT did not reboot itself. I had to power back on (low battery maybe??)
IT ran through the android screen, then began throwing force close errors. I used 7.0.3 That I found in an XDA writeup.
I came back to load the build from this thread, and to load gapps. XP WILL NOT recognize the partitions. Do I need to partition using wintool and then load Gapps to that partition??
I have boot, EXT4, EXT4 and CM7 FAT partitions now. I can build a new card but not sure it will work.
Thanks for not cutting me down on all of this. I don;t like to admit to my novice computing skills, but this has rubbed my face in it a bit.
Stopped Apps
Com.android.providers.calender
.deskclock
.bluetooth
com.koushikdutta.rommanager
.media
.media is repeatedly showing an error.
nook looks f'in awesome though.